JPH04298468A - Elevator hall designated floor operating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make an elevator service to a desired floor for passengers in a short time by one designated-floor call registration by dividing service zones into a lower layer and a higher layer, and installing an elevator hall designated- floor operating device which can made a designated-floor call registration from respective halls of shuttle elevators which are operated independently for respective service zones. CONSTITUTION:A designated-floor call input transmission means 4 which inputs a designated-floor call signal 32 from a designated-floor push-button operating panel 3 and outputs designated-floor call signals 41, 42 and a predicted operating time data requisition signal 43 is provided. A first-zone group control controlling means 5 which computes the total of the waiting time for a call and the operating time to a designated floor to output the computed results is also provded. In addition, a second-zone group control controlling means 6 which computes the total of the waiting time for a call by the designated-floor call signal 42 and the operating time to a designated floor, and an elevator hall designated- floor push-button operating panel 2 which can register all the service floors to be connected are equipped.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Industrial Field of Application] The present invention is installed in an elevator in a high-rise building, etc., and the service zone is divided into, for example, a low floor and a high floor, and each service zone is operated by an independent elevator. The present invention relates to an elevator hall destination floor operating device that allows destination floor call registration.

0002

[Prior Art] Conventionally, for example, in a 60-story skyscraper, it has been known that a single elevator can service from the bottom floor to the top floor, and that rope-type elevators have reached their limits in terms of efficiency. In order to provide good service, there is a shuttle elevator, for example, which is divided into a low-rise service zone and a high-rise service zone, and an elevator is provided for each service zone.

[0003] Figures 6(a) and 6(b) show examples of this. Figure 6(a) shows, for example, a 40-story building with low-rise service zones (hereinafter referred to as low-rise service zones) from the 1st floor (1F) to the 20th floor (20F). zone) and from the 20th floor (20F) to the 40th floor (40F)
The low-rise zone is serviced by three elevators A, B, and C, and the high-rise zone is serviced by three elevators D, E, and F.
This is an example of a case where a service is provided in the zone and the standard floor 1F is shared by both zones.

FIG. 6(b) shows a 60-story building with 1st to 3rd floors.
This is an example in which the zone is divided into a low-rise zone of 0F and a high-rise zone of 30F to 60F, and the intermediate transfer floor 30F is shared by both zones and divided into two.

In the case of FIG. 6(a), it is possible to service all floors without a transfer from the standard floor 1F, but a transfer is always required when providing service from another floor to a service floor in a high-rise zone. is necessary.

In the case of FIG. 6(b), transfers are always required for service between the low-rise zone and the high-rise zone. When making such a transfer, the process is to register the hall call for the first zone, wait for the car, go to the passenger transfer floor, register the hall call for the second zone, wait for the car, and arrive at the final destination floor. become.

[0007] Recently, in order to improve the convenience of users in halls, the following landing floor destination floor button operation panels are often installed, and it is now possible to register the destination floor in the hall. For example, in the case of Figure 6(b), the 1st floor of the low-rise zone has Figure 2
A destination floor button operation panel 1 having the destination floor call button 11 shown in (a) is installed, and by pressing the destination floor call button 11 in the 1F hall, all service floors from 2F to 30F in the low-rise zone are registered as the destination floor. can.

[0008] Also, on the 30th floor of the high-rise zone transfer floor,
A landing destination floor button operation panel 2 having a destination floor call button 21 shown in FIG. 2(b) is installed.
F All service floors can be registered as destination floors.

[0009]

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] As mentioned above, in the zoned elevator system of a skyscraper, if you want to go to a service floor in another zone, you must register the hall call more than once. Of course, each time you do that, you have to wait in the hall for your basket.

[0010] Thus, as the number of zones increases,
There has been a problem in that elevator services between multiple zones are inconvenient, as the time required to register a call increases and the time required to arrive at the final destination floor increases.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention provides an elevator landing destination floor button operating device that can provide service to the destination floor in a shorter time by only registering the call for the destination floor once when providing elevator service between multiple zones. With the goal.

0012

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention divides a plurality of floors to be serviced by an elevator in a building into a plurality of service zones including its own service zone and other service zones. However, for elevators that can be operated in each service zone, and that have transfer floors between the service zones, and that can service all the floors to be serviced, a landing destination floor registration operation panel that allows call registration for all floors to be serviced;

[0013] A destination floor call signal from this landing floor registration operation panel is input, the destination floor call signal is classified and processed to determine whether it is the own service zone or another service zone, and the destination floor call signal is sent to the corresponding service zone. a transfer means for transferring the destination floor;

001
4] The destination floor call signal output from the transfer means is input, and it is determined whether or not there is a transfer floor. If there is a transfer floor, the waiting time of the destination floor call signal and the own service zone standard are determined. The predicted waiting time TB from the floor to the transfer floor is calculated, and when the predicted waiting time TB is greater than the predicted operating time TA, it is output as a destination floor call to other service zones, and the predicted operating time T
When A is smaller than the predicted waiting time TB, the second calculating means repeats the calculation until the predicted operating time TA becomes larger than the predicted waiting time TB.

[0015]

[Operation] According to the present invention, the destination floor call signal generated from the landing destination floor registration operation panel is determined whether the destination floor call signal is a call for the own service zone or
Determine whether the call is for another service zone, and if it is a call from your own service zone, calculate the predicted operation time TA by the sum of the waiting time for that call and the operation time to the destination floor, and also calculate the waiting time (predicted) for the destination floor call. The waiting time (TB) is calculated, TA and TB are compared, and the result is registered as the destination floor call for the transfer zone. Because of this,
When providing elevator service between multiple zones, service can be provided to the destination floor in a shorter time by just registering the call for the destination floor once.

[0016]

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Here, the service floor is the 60th floor, and the service zone is the first floor from 1F to 30F as shown in FIG. 6(b). Zone (1st zone or own zone) and 30F~
The case of the second zone (2nd zone, other zone, or transfer zone) of 60F will be explained.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an embodiment of the destination floor operating device of the present invention.As shown in FIG. a destination floor button operation panel 3 equipped with a floor call button 31 and capable of registering service floors of the own zone and other zones as destination floors;

Destination floor call button 31 on this destination floor button operation panel 3
Destination floor call signal (hereinafter referred to as H
cx) 32, and this Hcx32 is the 1st
Destination floor call input transfer means 4 for classifying whether it is a zone call signal or a 2nd zone call signal and outputting destination floor call signals 41, 42 and a predicted operation time data request signal 43;

A destination floor call signal 41 obtained by classification processing is inputted by the destination floor call input transfer means 4, and a calculation request signal 43 for predicted operation time TA (predicted operation time data request signal 43) to be described later is inputted. At that time, the sum of the waiting time for that call and the travel time to the destination floor, that is, the predicted travel time TA, is calculated and output. Means 5 and

The destination floor call signal 42 obtained through classification processing by the destination floor call input transfer means 4 is calculated by calculating the sum of the waiting time for that call and the operation time to the destination floor, that is, the predicted operation time TB, for example. A 2ndt zone group management control means 6 consisting of a microcomputer and added to a general group management control device, and a landing destination floor button operation panel 2 capable of registering all service floors in the high-rise zone at the transfer floor, for example, the 30th floor, as destination floors. comprising the means 4, 5,
A LAN (Local
Area Network).

The operation of the landing floor operating device constructed in this way will be explained below with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5. Now, Hcx32 input from the destination floor button device panel 3 is:
In the destination floor call input/transfer means 4, the destination floor call signal 41 of the 1st zone and the 2nd zone are inputted to the group management control device 5 of the st zone.
It is classified into the destination floor call signal 42 of the zone.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the destination floor call input transfer means 5. Step (hereinafter STEP)
) 1, the destination floor is checked, that is, the generated Hcx32 determines whether there is a transfer, and if there is no transfer (for example, in the zone division example of FIG. 6(b), this corresponds to x<30F of Hcx). ), proceed to STEP 2. In STEP 2, the call is transferred to the 1st zone group management control means 5 as the general Hcx 32 of the 1st zone, and general (normal) group management control is performed.

In STEP 1, if Hcx32 requires a transfer (x>31F), the process advances to STEP 3. In STEP 3, a transfer is required, so the 1st zone has the top floor, that is, the transfer Hcx, for example, Fig. 6
In the example of (b), Hc30 is transferred to the 1st zone group management control means 5 as a destination floor call, and general group management control is performed.

In STEP 4, a calculation request signal 43 for the predicted operation time TA is output to the 1st zone group management control means 5. This predicted operation time TA will later be used as data when determining the destination floor call registration timing for the 2nd zone. In STEP 5, the Hcx 32 is transferred to the 2nd zone group management control means 6 as the 2nd zone destination floor call signal 42.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the 1st zone group management control means 5. This group management control means 5 registers the 1st zone destination floor call and calculates the aforementioned predicted operation time TA. In STEP 11, Hcx3 transferred by the destination floor call input transfer means 4
2 to perform general group management control. STEP12～
At step 14, the TA value is calculated based on the TA calculation request signal and outputted as predicted operation time data 52.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the 2nd zone group management control means 6. The 2nd zone group management control means 6 also inputs the destination floor call signal 42 transferred from the destination floor call input/transfer means 4, calculates the predicted waiting time TB of the call signal, and calculates the predicted waiting time TB and the predicted operation. From the comparison process with time TA, the optimum registration timing of Hcx is detected and registered as the 2nd zone destination floor call.

[0027] In STEP 21, after receiving the transfer of Hcx, T
B is calculated, and in STEP 22, the data of TA is inputted, and in STEP 23, it is compared with the previously calculated TA. If TB>TA, that is, the waiting time in the hall of the transfer floor is longer than the operating time required for the 1st zone elevator to arrive at the transfer floor, STEP 25
Immediately, Hcx is registered as the 2nd zone destination floor call, the call button corresponding to Hcx on the destination floor button operation panel of the 2nd zone transfer floor is registered and displayed (lamp lit), and general group management control is performed.

[0028] If TB≦TA in STEP23,
Calculate the values of TA and TB that change from time to time along the route of STEP 24 → STEP 21 → STEP 22 and calculate TB.
>Cycle until TA is reached.

[0029] The lighting/extinguishing control of the call button indicator light on each destination floor button operation panel 3 is a general control method in which the light is turned on when a call is registered in each group management control device of the corresponding zone, and the light is turned off when the corresponding zone elevator responds. Since it is the same as , the explanation will be omitted.

In this way, you can of course call the 1st zone service floor using the 1st zone destination floor button operation panel.
A 2nd zone service floor call can also be registered, making it unnecessary to perform a new call registration operation at the transfer floor. Furthermore, since the call for the 2nd zone can be registered before the 1st zone elevator arrives at the transfer floor, the waiting time can be reduced as much as possible.

[0031]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention,
When performing elevator service between multiple zones, it is possible to provide an elevator landing destination floor button operating device that can provide service to the destination floor in a shorter time by just registering the call of the destination floor once.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a landing floor operating means of the present invention.

FIGS. 2(a) and 2(b) show a conventional landing floor destination floor button operation panel, and FIG. 2(c) shows a landing floor destination floor operation panel of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of destination call input/transfer means 4 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the 1st zone group management control means 5 in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the 2nd zone group management control means 6 in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a method of dividing service zones within a building.

[Explanation of symbols]

2... Landing destination floor button operation panel, 3... Landing destination floor operation panel, 4...
Destination floor call input/transfer means, 5...1st zone group management control means, 6...2nd zone group management control means.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: A plurality of floors to be serviced by an elevator in a building are divided into a plurality of service zones including the own service zone and other service zones, and the elevator can be operated for each service zone, and In an elevator that has a transfer floor between service zones and can service all floors to be serviced, it is installed in the hall of the standard floor and can register calls for all floors to be serviced. A landing floor destination floor registration operation panel and a destination floor call signal from this landing floor destination floor registration operation panel are input, the destination floor call signal is classified and processed to determine whether it is the own service zone or another service zone, and the destination floor call signal is processed to determine whether it is the own service zone or another service zone. A transfer means that transfers a destination floor call signal to the side, a destination floor call signal output from this transfer means is input, and a predicted operation time T from when the destination floor call signal is transferred to the destination floor.
The destination floor call signal output from the transfer means is inputted to a first calculation means for calculating A, and it is determined whether or not there is a transfer floor, and if there is a transfer floor, the destination floor call signal is input. Calculates the waiting time at the signal and the predicted waiting time TB from the own service zone standard floor to the transfer floor, and when this predicted waiting time TB is greater than the predicted operation time TA, outputs it as a destination floor call to the other service zone side; Further, when the predicted operating time TA is smaller than the predicted waiting time TB, the predicted operating time TA is smaller than the predicted waiting time TB.
a second arithmetic means that repeats the arithmetic operation until the value becomes larger;
An elevator landing floor operating device equipped with